The City’s response holds that Coss should have known the risks of engaging in the activity, (walking across the street in a legal crosswalk with the signal) and should have taken more appropriate steps to ensure his safety

Soon police may instantly know the identity and personal background of everyone they see, VentureBeat reports: Google Glass may soon become a favored tool for law enforcement agencies in the United States….

The Broadway Bomb brings together more than 2,500 longboard skaters each year in New York City to push eight miles through Manhattan, from West 116th Street to the Charging Bull in the Financial District. Since it’s inception in 2000, the NYPD has tried to hamper the event by hassling skaters, blocking roads, and handing out tickets. This year the NYPD busted out the orange netting to try and corral the skaters. They failed miserably. It was so bad that someone set the folly to the music from Benny Hill and it couldn’t be more appropriate.

About time! From NBC New York: A federal judge ruled that the contentious NYPD tactic known as stop-and-frisk violates constitutional rights, appointing a monitor to oversee reforms and ordering the department to…

Is one purpose of the NYPD’s controversial and wide-ranging “Stop and Frisk” policy to instill entire communities with the feeling of a military occupation? Via Gothamist: A federal trial challenging the constitutionality of…